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Information Society for All Thematic Network (Working Group) IST-1999-14101 The support of the European Commission is acknowledged for funding the project work. Plan Part I: Background RTD projects International Scientific Forum


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Information Society for All

Thematic Network (Working Group) IST-1999-14101

The support of the European Commission is acknowledged for funding the project work.

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Plan

Part I: Background

RTD projects International Scientific Forum

Part II: IS4ALL overview

Aims, objectives and technical approach Worlplan and structure Expected outcomes

Part III: Concluding remarks

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Background

EU-funded RTD work

RACE-IPSNI, TIDE-GUIB, TIDE-ACCESS,

ACTS-AVANTI, W3C-WAI

ERCIM Working Group

“User Interfaces for All” (UI4ALL)

International Scientific Forum (ISF)

Three workshops, two White Papers

International collaboration

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Universal access - The past decade

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Specifications / Requirements

  • Terminal
  • User interface
  • Infrastructure

User interface adaptations

  • Communication aids
  • Configsys
  • INTERACT

DESIGN FOR ALL ADAPTATIONS EXPLORATORY

1988

Dual user Interfaces

Homer UIMS

Consolidation & dissemination

standardisation, international fora, working groups, Healthcare

Case applications

WWW, digital libraries, word processing, chess game, wearable

Unified user Interfaces

I-GET UIMS, USE-IT tool

… …

Accessible technologies

FORTHSCANNER, HAWK-? ?

Accessible technologies

HAWK-I, SCANLIB

… …

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RTD efforts & key results

Novel interaction technologies

Non-visual interaction

COMONKIT (1995) HAWK (1995, 1999)

Augmentated Windows

SCANLIB (1995-1997) FORTHScan (1999-2001)

Tools for unified user interface development

PIM, G-DISPEC, USE-IT, I-GET

Application in Web browsing

AVANTI, NAYTILOS

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NAYTILOS Web Browser (2001)

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NAYTILOS Web Browser (Cont.)

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International Scientific Forum

Ad-hoc group of experts Three meetings

San Fransisco, USA, 1997 (1st meeting) Crete, Greece, 1998 (2nd meeting) Munich, Germany, 1999 (3rd meeting)

Two white papers

Common vocabulary Research agenda Contribution to the EC IST Programme (CPAs)

Foundation for IS4ALL

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The International Scientific Forum

An international network for

discussion exchange of experience & practice collaboration

Overall objective

promote the establishment of a favourable

environment for the creation of an Information Society acceptable to all citizens

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1st meeting

Objectives

assess the state of the art & stimulate developments advance the existing wisdom towards universal

access in the emerging Information Society

Outcomes

R&D agenda (identifying short, medium and long

term targets)

White Paper (published in the IJHCI, 10 (2), 1998,

107-134)

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2nd Meeting

Objectives

Review and consolidate the outcome of the

previous meeting (cf. White paper), focusing on four thematic topics, namely HCI design, Usability, User interface software technologies & Standardisation

Outcomes

Evolving R&D agenda, White paper (published in the IJHCI, 11 (1), 1-28) Deliverable to EC

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3rd meeting

Objective

Widen the scope of applicability of universal access

principles into emerging technologies and application domains

Digital Libraries Health Care Telematics

Outcome

Deliverable to EC Contribution to the EC 5 FP (Cross Programme

Actions)

Working Group

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IS4ALL - Aims and objectives

Four main objectives:

Consolidating existing knowledge on Universal

Access in the context of IST into a comprehensive code of design practice.

Translating the consolidated wisdom to

concrete recommendations for Healthcare Telematics.

Demonstrating the validity and applicability of

the recommendations (concrete scenarios)

Promoting the Universal Access principles and

practice in Healthcare Telematics

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Project phases

Develop Universal Access code of practice Articulate guidelines for how to use universal access in Healthcare Telematics Apply universal access principles in specific scenarios Promote universal access principles into vendor requirements

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Working Group Structure

Advisory Board Member Organisations Known in advance To be selected Group of Subcontractors Review Committee Main Contractor

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Working Group members

UA access and HCI

  • ICS-FORTH
  • CNR-IROE
  • GMD
  • INRIA
  • FhG-IAO

From Healthcare

Telematics

  • EHTEL Consortium
  • MS-HUGe
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Subcontractors

Organisations

  • SERCO, UK
  • UCL, Belgium
  • UniKENT, UK
  • UniLINZ, Austria
  • DFKI, Germany
  • MA Systems & Control
  • STO, Germany

Individuals

  • Prof. Salvendy,

Purdue University, USA

  • Prof. Costabile,

University of Bary, Italy

  • S. Haataja,

Nokia, Finland

Reviewers & others

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State of the art

IS4ALL is now under way

The project is 10 months old Web site http://is4all.ics.forth.gr Poster and leaflet 1st Seminar scheduled for November 19, 2001

during the EHTEL Conference

First review scheduled for October, 2001

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Objectives of the focus group

Raise awareness about

aims and objectives of the project its distinctive focus and technical approach its novel attributes its potential impact

Create a community of potential collaborators Facilitate bilateral interactions and exchange of

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Feed the data collection activity of IS4ALL